NightScream

Young woman (Candace Cameron, Kirk's sister) in a trance drives to a small town where a girl who looks exactly like her was murdered one year ago claiming to be her. She eventually comes out of the trance and returns to her normal self. The murdered girl's parents offer her shelter, but she then begins to have flashbacks to the murder and discovers someone else other then the murdered girl's boyfriend may have been the killer. Made for television movie offers no surprises or suspense. Candace Cameron makes for a weak leading lady and the film features your usual red herrings. Totally predictable and a total washout.

Not Rated; Adult Themes.

While the movie managed to keep my attention for the most part, it still had some big problems. The story had the potential to be decent, except that it got horribly messed up by the weak acting. Even the stars were dragged down by this sloppy dialogue. The highlight of it all- guy goes up to the sheriff, and says "Nice day.... too bad your father isn't alive to see it."

NIGHTSCREAM is one of those insipid made-for-TV movies that seem primarily aimed at the middle aged American housewife who doesn't want too much in the way of sex, violence, or controversy in her TV scheduling. As such it's an entirely insipid affair, a dumb non-starter of a film that suffers from dull plotting and an almost entire lack of emotion and incident in the storyline.

The tale begins as a young woman finds herself in a small town still suffering from the consequences of a horrific murder that took place exactly a year before. It turns out that the murder victim looked EXACTLY the same as this new visitor, and that she's blessed (or cursed) with flashback memories of events building up to the tragic event. It soon transpires that the killer may still be on the loose after all this time.

It's not necessarily a bad set-up but it never goes anywhere and that's what makes this film so frustrating. It's full of bog-standard acting (including from a youthful Casper Van Dien), stereotyped characters, an almost wilful lack of suspense. The supernatural elements are deliberately toned down throughout, leaving this a decidedly lukewarm effort.

Ok, so this made for television movie wasn't too scary. Then again are most made for television movies scary? No. Even though it wasn't very scary it wasn't a very bad movie. I didn't know who the killers were until the end of the movie. I thought it was corny though how every time she went into a trance she would see the murdered girl and see what happened when she was alive. How predictable is that? I do think Candace Cameron is a very good actress though. I grew up watching Full House. In reality I give this movie a 3 stars out of 5.

This is a very confusing film. Even for afternoon TV it rates poorly.

The story revolves around a girl turning up at a small town and looking remarkably similar to a girl who was murdered the previous year .

The problem for me seems that although the two girls are played by the same actress, the young men in it look remarkably similar too. Which left me feeling like I wasn't sure who was whom.

The actress playing the dead girl's mum is decidedly wooden especially when hearing something that had happened to her daughter that would devastate most mothers.

All in all not one to be re-watched . not even creepy although it was billed as a chiller .Its a chiller decidedly Luke warm.